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Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co Mounts a Powerful Staging of “Mother Courage”

Olympia Dukakis makes good on her desire to evoke the weakness the indomitable Mother Courage fights so hard to cover up: the actress conveys the highs and lows of this gargantuan character with enormous power.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Eric-Bentley, John Douglas Thompson, Mother Courage, Olympia Dukakis, Shakespeare and Company

Fuse Album Review: Mark Dresser’s “Nourishments” — Music Tough and Pretty, Smart and Fun

Nourishments is an emphatic musical statement from a seasoned bandleader, returning to the front of a traditional quintet.

By: Steve Mossberg Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Mark Dresser, Mark Dresser Quintet, Nourishments

Book Review: “The Amazing Bud Powell” — A Disappointing Study of a Jazz Legend

Ramsey’s book on Bud Powell is both a provocative read and a disappointing one. Anyone thinking this will be an illuminating portrait of a jazz master is likely to suffer a serious case of buyer’s remorse.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Review Tagged: Bud Powell, Guthrie Ramsey, Jazz History, Steve Elman, The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, University of California Press

Film Review: Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons” — Roasting in Hell for Eternity is a Given.

The bubbling-over sexuality of Paul Schrader’s The Canyons is surely tongue-in-cheek, amusing in its semen-splashed excessiveness.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: James Deen, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Schrader, The Canyons

Book Review: “The Hanging Garden” — A Posthumous Gift from a Literary Giant

This novella is a gift to all of us who love Patrick White’s strangely alive prose and a welcome addition to his oeuvre. And for those who don’t know his work, it is a terrific way to be introduced to one of the 20th century’s finest writers.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Australian literature, contemporary fiction, Patrick White, The Hanging Garden

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts, World Books Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, cross-cultural, history of science, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

CD Review: Dream Pop Gets Serious — the Ambitious Reach of Candy Claws

The latest LP from the dream pop band Candy Claws turns out to be its most profound and impressive statement to date.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Books, Featured, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Candy Claws, Ceres & Calypso in The Deep Time, Dream Pop

Fuse Theater Review: Titanic Theatre Company’s Satire “Why Torture Is Wrong” Treads Water

The Titanic Theatre Company production struggles with Christopher Durang’s superficial satire and manages to squeeze some laughs out of it.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Christopher Durang, Titanic Theatre Company, Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them

Fuse Theater Review: “How We Got On” — Exhilarating Hip Hop

I am probably the last person anyone would see as a hip hop fan, but I walked out of the theater with a new appreciation for the music and the satisfaction of experiencing an old-fashioned coming-of-age story told in a refreshing new way.

By: Terry Byrne Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Company One, How We Got On, Summer Williams

Theater Review: CSC’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” — A Cuddly Pair of Rats

The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” is spunky and engaging — but the play is spun in one direction, away from its weird edginess.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Steve Maler, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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